As promised for a long time, we’ve been working on pitting Xen and OpenVZ against eachother in a little “battle of the free virtualization solutions”. (If you can’t quite recall what this OpenVZ business is all about, we suggest you go read our article on container-based virtualization)
Though development of our vApus FOS benchmark suite is moving…
If you’ve been keeping up with our articles for a while, you might have picked up on vApus Mark I: the virtualized stress test we created for internal use at the Sizing Servers testlab.
As detailed in Johan’s article, this bench consists of 3 separate applications, all of which we are very familiar with due to extensive optimization and stress testing…
Now that the actual conference is behind us, and we’ve found our way back to the lab, it’s time to finish what we started. First off, an apology for our radio silence on day 3: our schedule turned out to be quite a bit more packed than we thought it was, so finding our way to the quiet of the press room proved to be more of a hurdle than originally…
